Spine of the World

Location from Icewind Dale by R.A. Salvatore / Wizards of the Coast / Black Isle Studios

A colossal mountain range stretching across the width of northern Faerûn — an impassable wall of stone and ice that isolates Icewind Dale from the civilized south.

Also known as: The Spine, The Wall of the World, Worldspine Mountains

What They Know

• Only a handful of passes allow travel between Icewind Dale and the south, and all are treacherous in winter.
• Mithral Hall, the legendary dwarven kingdom, lies within the western reaches of the range.
• Orc tribes breed in vast numbers within the mountain caves, periodically uniting under a warlord to sweep down on the lowlands.
• Frost giants and their kin claim the highest peaks and sometimes descend to raid caravans in the passes.
• The mountains contain veins of mithral, adamantine, and other rare metals that have drawn dwarven miners for millennia.
• Deep shafts and natural caverns connect to the Underdark far below, providing routes for drow raiding parties and worse.
• Xardorok Sunblight's duergar fortress is hidden within the eastern mountains, producing a chardalyn dragon weapon.
• The village of Kuldahar shelters in a protected valley, warmed by a magical oak of immense age.

Connections

• borders — icewind_dale
• contains — mithral_hall
• contains — sunblight_fortress
• contains — kuldahar
• contains — dragons_eye
• contains — severed_hand
• contains — dwarven_valley

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